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| Title |
Author |
Notes |
Location |
| Homelessness, Divorce, Alcoholism, Hoarding, Lying, Cheating, Bullying, Poverty, Foster Care, Run away children and parents |
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| Soccer Star |
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| My Brother Charlie |
Holly Robinson Peete |
Autism |
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| One |
Kathryn Otoshi |
Bullying |
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| Just a Dream |
Chris Van Allsburg |
Environment |
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| The Sissy Duckling |
Harvey Fierstein |
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| A Taste of Colored Water |
Matt Faulkner |
Racial Inequality |
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| Migrant |
Maxine Trottier |
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| Boundless Grace |
Mary Hoffman |
Divorce |
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| Amazing Grace |
Mary Hoffman |
Gender Roles |
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| The Butter Battle |
Dr. Seuss |
Respecting Differences |
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| The Christmas Menorahs |
Janice Cohn |
Hate Crimes |
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| The New Girl |
Jacqui Robbins |
New Kid at school |
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| The Lady in the Box |
Ann McGovern |
Homelessness |
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| Allie's Basketball Dream |
Barbara Barber |
Gender Roles |
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| Great Joy |
Kate DiCamillo |
Homelessness |
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| I Don't Want to Talk About it |
Jeanie Franz |
Divorce |
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| The Sissy Duckling |
Harvey Fierstein |
Gender Roles |
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| The Bully Blockers Club |
Teresa Bateman |
Bullying |
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| Summer Wheels |
Eve Bunting |
Angi likes this |
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| The Recess Queen |
Alexis O'Neill |
Angi likes this |
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| Ruby's Wish |
Shirin Yim Bridges |
Angi likes this |
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| Oliver Brown is a Sissy |
Tomie dePaola |
Gender Roles |
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| Ugly Fish |
Scott Magoon |
Bullying |
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| Enemy Pie |
Derek Munson |
Jealousy/ExclusionThe |
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| The Wall |
Eve Bunting |
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| Mama's Coming Home |
Kate Banks |
Working Mom |
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| Mr. Lincoln's Way |
Patricia Polacco |
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| Virgie Goes to School with Us Boys |
Elizabeth Howard |
Gender Equality |
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| Fred Stays with Me! |
Nancy Coffelt |
Divorce |
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| Creativity |
John Steptoe |
Poverty/Cultural Differences-Similarities |
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| Just Like Josh Gibson |
Angela Johnson |
Gender Equality |
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| Train to Somewhere |
Eve Bunting |
Orphaned life |
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| William's Doll |
Charlotte Zolotow |
Gender Equality |
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| Making the Team |
Nancy Carlson |
Gender Equality |
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| The Stories Julian Tells |
Ann Cameron |
Fibbing |
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| Bootsie Barker Bites |
Barbara Bottner |
Bullying |
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| The Meanest Thing to Say |
Bill Cosby |
Bullying |
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| Bully |
Laura Vaccaro Seeger |
Bullying |
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| Chick-O-Saurus |
Lenore and Daniel Jennewein |
Bullying |
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| Players in Pigtails |
Shana Corey |
Bullying |
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| The Other Side |
Jacqueline Woodson |
Race Relations |
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| A New Room for William |
Sally Grindley |
Divorce |
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| Coming on Home Soon |
Jacqueline Woodson |
Parent out of home |
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| Each Kindness |
Jacqueline Woodson |
Bullying |
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| The Tooth |
Avi Slodovnick |
Homelessness |
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| My Best Friend |
Ann Rodman |
Making New Friends/Exclusion |
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| Sometimes It's Grandma's and Grandpas |
Gayle Byrne |
Grandparent as parents |
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| Family Farm |
Thomas Locker |
Poor Times |
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| Enemy Pie |
Derek Munson |
Bullying |
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| Train to Somewhere |
Eve Bunting |
adoption |
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| Forbidden Schoolhouse |
Slavery, Intolerance, Biography |
Intermediate |
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| The Wall |
Eve Bunting |
Empathy, death |
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| A Day’s Work |
Eve Bunting |
Poverty, immigration |
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| I have a Sister… Deaf |
Jeanne Peterson |
Special needs |
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| Basket Moon |
Mary Lyn Ray |
Poverty, intolerance, visualization, details for writing |
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| The Braids Girl |
Jack Canfield |
Family Homelessness |
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| I Can Hear the Sun |
Patricia Polacco |
Homelessness/Orphan |
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| Flyaway Home |
Eve Bunting |
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| Those Shoes |
Maribeth Bolts |
Poverty, Charity |
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| Happy Like Soccer |
Maribeth Bolts |
Single Mother Family, Poverty, "Wrong Side of Town" |
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| Moses goes to a Concert |
Issac Millman |
Deaf child and his school go to a concert |
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| Moses Goes to the Circus |
Issac Millman |
Deaf child goes to the Circus |
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| Bully |
Patricia Polacco |
Bullying |
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| Two Homes |
Claire Masurel |
Divorce |
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| Armando and the Blue Tarp School |
Edith Hope Fine |
Access to schooling |
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| Lily and the Paper Man |
Rebecca Upjohn |
Homelessness |
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| Eagle Eyes |
Jeanne Gehret |
ADHD |
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| The Junkyard Wonders |
Patricia Polacco |
Learning differences |
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| One Green Apple |
Eve Bunting |
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| A New Room for William |
Sally Grindley |
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| CHAPTER BOOKS |
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| Title |
Author |
Notes |
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| Zebra Forest |
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| Freaky Fast Frankie Joe |
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| Rain Reign |
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| Almost Home |
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| Saturday Boy |
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| Homesick |
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| Graham Cracker Plot |
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| Mountain Dog |
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| Chasing the Milky Way |
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| Out of My Mind |
Cynthia Lord |
Genius cerebral palsy girl |
NF |
| Summer of the Gypsy Moths |
Sara PennypackerA |
A girl whose Mother is away "finding" herself meet an foster girl while on vacation. |
NF |
| Love, Aubrey |
Suzanne La Fleur |
Girl survives a car crash, but Father and little sister do not. Mother has disappeared and girl has gone to live with her Grandmother after this tragedy. |
PPL |
| The Chalk Box Kid |
Clyde Robert Bulla |
Moving/New School |
NF |
| Fig Pudding |
Ralph Fletcher |
Tough Times/Family death |
NF |
| Wish On a Unicorn |
Karen Hesse |
Poverty |
NF |
| Just Juice |
Karen Hesse |
Non-reader |
NF |
| The Beast in Ms. Rooney's Room |
Patricia Reilly Giff |
Student held back |
NF |
| Hey, New Kid! |
Betsy Duffey |
New Kid/New School |
NF |
| The Unforgotten Coat |
Frank Cottrell Boyce |
Homeless immmigrants in new school (High Level) |
NF |
| Kizzy Ann Stamps |
Jeri Watts |
New School/Racism |
NF |
| The Family Under the Bridge |
Natalie Savage Carlson |
Homeless Family |
ILL |
| Mississippi Bridge |
Mildred Taylor |
Racism |
DON |
| Chance and the Butterfly |
Maggie de Vries |
Problem child in school |
ILL |
| Sarah, Plain and Tall |
Patricia MacLaughlin |
NF |
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| Runaway Twin |
Peg Kehret |
Foster Child/Runaway |
NF |
| Missing May |
Cynthia Rylant |
Death in the Family |
NF |
| A Taste of Blackberries |
Doris Buchanan Smith |
Death of a Friend |
NF |
| Some Frog! |
Eve Bunting |
Divorce |
PPL |
| Amber Brown series |
Paula Danziger |
Divorce |
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| Dear Mr. Henshaw |
Beverly Cleary |
Divorce |
NF |
| Blubber |
Judy Blume |
Bullying |
DON |
| Locomotion |
Jacqueline Woodson |
Foster Kid |
PMS |
| Clay |
Colby Rodowsky |
Stolen Children |
PPL |
| Young Man and the Sea |
WR Philbrick |
Alcoholic Parent/Missing Mother |
NF |
| Me and Rolly Maloo |
Janet Wong |
Cheating |
PPL |
| DeDe Takes Charge |
Johanna Hurwitz |
Divorce |
ILL |
| Homesick |
Kate Klise |
Hoarding |
NF |
| Buttermilk Hill |
Ruth White |
Divorce |
LH |
| Jake Drake |
Andrew Clements |
Bullying |
LH |
| Eggs |
Jerry Spinelli |
Friendship btwn. two kids with family problems |
PPL |
| Rules |
Cynthia Lord |
Girl with autistic brother struggles with outward appearances. |
NF |
| Pictures of Hollis Woods |
Patricia Reilly Giff |
NF |
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| The Higher Power of Lucky |
Susan Patron |
Girl struggles with foster care and family alcoholism |
PPL |
| Mick Harte Was Here |
Barbara Park |
Girl struggles with the death of her beloved brother |
NF |
| Waiting for Normal |
Leslie Connor |
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| Small as an Elephant |
Jennifer Richard Jacobson |
Boy struggles with parental abandonment |
NF |
| The Sorta Sisters |
Adrian Fogelin |
Two foster system girls create a friendship out of their common experience |
PPL |
| Touch Blue |
Cynthia Lord |
Girl and Family board a foster child and struggles with that decision and their relationships |
NF |
| Shoe Shine Girl |
Clyde Robert Bulla |
ILL |
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| Spider Boy |
Ralph Fletcher |
DON |
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| Surviving Brick Johnson |
Laurie Meyer |
Bullying |
NF |
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